linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps

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Message-Id: <1222102098.8533.62.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:48:18 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in
	/proc/pid/smaps

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:21 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The corollary is that someone running with a 64K base page kernel may be
> surprised that the pagesize is always 4K. However I'll check if there is
> a simple way of checking out if the MMU size differs from PAGE_SIZE.

Sure.  If it isn't easy, the best thing to do is probably just to
document the "interesting" behavior.

-- Dave

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